Chapter 21:
The Reality of the Sungod Sûrya
(3) In the middle the most
powerful master of all the governing heavenly bodies is situated, the burning sun. With
its fire it heats the three worlds and with its rays it lights them.
That
sun globe, passing through the north, through the south or crossing the
equator, is known differently depending its slowness, swiftness or
equality of movement. In its rising and setting or staying up in
different positions, it is making long, short or equally long days, while it, as ordained, moves
through the different signs of the [astrological] zodiac beginning with the
sign of Makara [Capricorn].
Chapter 22: The
movement
of
the
Planets
and
their
Considered
Effects
(3) He
[that solar lead of time], this supremely powerful Original Person
who is Nârâyana Himself, the Supersoul of the three Vedic
principles
who is there for the benefit and karmic purification of all the worlds,
is the cause sought by all saintly and Vedic knowing. He divides the
year, as He
thinks fit, in
its twelve parts and arranges the six seasons beginning with spring with their different
qualities.
Chapter 23:
Description of the Stars of S'is'umâra, our Coiling Galaxy
(4) imagine this great army
of luminaries to be a s'is'umâra [a dolphin] and describe
it, concentrated in yoga, as [that what can be seen of] the Supreme
Lord Vâsudeva
[see also a picture
of the celestial sky as factually seen in a telescope].
Chapter 24:
The Nether Worlds
(10) The
gardens
and
parks that are most
appealing to the mind and senses,
pleasure with their masses of
flowers and fruits hanging from the branches of the trees that,
embraced
by creepers, nicely bend low being pulled by gravity. The
sensual
enjoyment is invoked by a
magnificence surpassing the
beauty of the residential places of the godly:
the variety of birds that in pairs frequent
the ponds filled with sparkling clear water restless with jumping fish,
the lotus flowers in those waters, the lilies, the kuvalaya and
kahlâra flowers, the blue and red lotuses, giant lotuses with
thousands of petals and the uninterrupted joyous sound of all kinds
of sweetly vibrating birds that built their nests in the forests.
Chapter
25: The
Glories of Lord Ananta
(6) He, Ananta, is the Supreme
Lord, the reservoir of all transcendental qualities and the original
Godhead who, in restraint of the force of His intolerance and wrath
[belonging to his mission of destruction], resides [in His abode] for
the welfare of all [the living beings of all] worlds.
Chapter 26:
The Hellish Worlds or the Karmic Rebound
(15) He
who
in
this
life
unnecessarily
deviated
from
his
path
of
self-realization
and
yielded
to
hypocrisy
[or heresy], is forced into a hell known as
Asipatravana ['the razor-sharp forest'] where he is beaten with a
whip so that he, fleeing away left and right, cuts his
body on the two-edged razor sharp palm leaves. He, in denial of his own
nature [or neglect of his civil duty], will thus have to face the
result
of following the wrong path and then, with a lot of pain, stumbling at
every
step, stupefied thinks: 'Oh, what have I done to myself?'